| What should family law be like?
Posted: 6/30/2008 7:20:32 PM | Nobody likes family law the way it is, everyone agrees it's anachronistic, but I've never heard people's opinions of what it SHOULD be. What's fair? Serious answers please.
(Yes, and of course my post does not meet the high quality standards of this forum without this line) | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 6/30/2008 9:39:59 PM | | OK, this thread is about to be deleted soon anyway, so someone might as well explain... why is this a wrong question to ask? I mean, look at the society.. so many men are SCARED of women, why? Because of he law primarily I think... marital laws, PC laws, sexual harrassment laws... so many horror stories among the people I know, due to the laws that seem biased against them... did I hit a taboo subject? OK, sorry. | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 6/30/2008 11:30:31 PM | | I don't think you hit a taboo subject, there are quite a few guys that are scared to even touch a woman for fear of going to jail for sexual harrassment. It's always a worry at the back of my mind. | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 7/1/2008 12:28:54 AM | You have a bachelor's degree and design software so you must have some intelligence so why do you need to ask what's fair? How about being treated equally by women as well as the courts. Maybe a bit of innocent until proven guilty might help rather than guilty period.
I think what needs to be done is what was done by wyoming when they were offered statehood and they said not without our women. That was in refference to women's rights. The men felt that the women worked along side them and built the territory with them and earned the respect and dignity to be treated equally under the law. I'm sure that was Wyoming.
Men and women must work together on these issues if we are to see any proper change in law or society. It is not a men vs women thing it is a human issue and affects every member of society even if some do not notice it. Forget the selfish individualism and look at what is good for society and force government to do what is right for the whole of society not pander to special interest groups.
I'll stop here before i get carried away. | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 7/1/2008 12:33:28 AM | I'm not really sure how to reform the law as written, since the law is generally fairly worded - I think the problem lies in the application of the law - where they feel that one group is in more need of protection over another. Judges tend to rule in favor of the 'protected' class rather than based on the law.
Family courts are notorious for that - and there needs to be some sort of judicial review system wherein the judges that make rulings that are not consistent with the law (in intent if not in word) should be censured, reprimanded or counseled...
The law itself - for the most part - isn't the problem. It's the understanding of and abuse of those laws that really cause the difficulty. | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 7/1/2008 12:37:33 AM | Sadly, family law is very gender bias and also we are using some outdated data, laws as well as raising methods that have gotten us to where we are today. Family law in some aspects should be set back to where they were 40 years ago before: Here are some exsamples:
1. Divorce due to differences that cant be fixed should be removed, after that law is set into effect divorce skyrocketed.
2. Domestic Violence should be a human issue and not the common image of a man hitting a woman, regardless of the 95/5 law which continues to grow in terms of men reporting women being abusive. | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 7/1/2008 4:07:19 PM | Can't we simply take each law as written (Federal, State or local), family or otherwise, and replace the words "man" or "woman" by "person"?
Can't we take those ridiculous "M/F" check-boxes and replace them with "P/N" (person or non-person) check-boxes? | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 7/1/2008 10:23:40 PM | | when a group or party has gained much from being the "victim" men or women, they will be open for equal rights until it means their funding it cut. | |
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| What should family law be like?
Posted: 7/3/2008 1:38:19 AM | The first issue in getting the laws straight is to actually "Fix" child support. The last 30 years have seen major conflicts of interest escalate "income shares" based C$ beyond the point of reason.
The same company/s that "recomend" to the states what are "reasonable" child support amounts is/are the same company/s that the states contract with to collect said child support. To add insult to injury, states collect Fed money for each dollar of child support that is collected/processed.
To put things in perspective. In Virginia Child Support is the #2 REVENUE generating activity for the state. The second that someone can explain to me how what is supposed to be a zero-sum(transfer $ from person A to person B) operation actually logically, and ethically generates money for the state - I'll say the system isn't broken.
You don't ask the lion how much meat it wants for dinner. | |
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